Sentences with phrase «approved by taxpayers»

$ 3 billion of taxpayer money going to dictatorship led 3rd world countries, all without ever having been approved by the taxpayers representatives.

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The bill was approved 56 - 2, with the dissenting votes cast by Democratic Sens. Liz Krueger and Brad Hoylman, who had wanted planks such as a ban on confidential settlements involving taxpayer funds to be stronger and have more protections for survivors.

We saw success statewide when voters approved a constitutional amendment to strip elected officials convicted of felonies of their taxpayer funded pensions, a measure previously approved by both the Senate and Assembly.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo hopes the new plan contained in the recently approved state budget aimed at controlling property taxes will be driven by individual taxpayers.

'' The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure; passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades, resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle - class New York taxpayers; approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods; and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.»

That ban on contractors» money was approved by the legislature along with a public financing system under which taxpayers pay for grants to fund state candidates» campaigns.

The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure, passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle class New Yorkers taxpayers, approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods, and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.

Adopting the 2013 budget without a tax increase was in the best interest of all county taxpayers and I firmly believe that the cuts approved by myself and a majority of the Legislature will deliver a balanced budget, providing a secure financial future for the county and allowing us to provide necessary services for residents without a tax increase.

That contractors» contribution ban was approved by the legislature along with a public financing system under which taxpayers pay for state candidates» campaigns.

The board has come under fire for approving a $ 392,000 salary for Galante, who has been the subject of scrutiny by the City Council and the FBI concerning his outside income and questionable operation of the taxpayer - funded nonprofit.

The Espadas» defense lawyer, the Daily News reports, is claiming the men assumed their use of taxpayer funds from the Soundview Health Clinics they controlled — to pay for things like sushi restaurant tabs and birthday party pony rides — were legal because the expenses were approved by an accounting firm.

The question being asked by this veto is why elected officials refuse to be term - limited and why they approve of multiple jobs for elected officials all at taxpayers» expense?

The statement clarifies Bucshon's comments by explaining that the draft legislation «is consistent with the plan approved by the National Science Board that requires NSF staff to provide clear justifications for why grants are worthy of American taxpayer funds.»

By an 8 - to - 1 vote, the board approved a resolution that asks the governor and state legislators to support the Wisconsin Voucher Taxpayer Transparency Bill «in an effort to be open, honest and transparent with the taxpayers of the School District of Rhinelander and the state of Wisconsin.»

Perry's charter application in New York was approved by the New York Board of Regents, despite the fact that the concepts, materials, programs, policies and operations that Perry says he will be using at these news charter schools were developed in the course of the work performed by the Hartford Board of Education employees making the information the property of the Hartford Board and Hartford's taxpayers and most definitely not the property of Steve Perry and his team.

The Alberta government, which has been dominated by the Conservative's for the forty years, paid the New York Times 30,000 taxpayer dollars to run a misleading advertisementmeant to promote TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline that a recent New York Times editorial condemned as something U.S. President Barack Obama «can not in good conscience approve.»

A growing number of business owners and taxpayers are mobilizing nationwide against the House - approved cap - and - trade energy bill, which would reduce energy consumption but could raise energy prices and harm small businesses By Joseph Abrams The revolution will not be televised: it's been blinking along on a giant bakery sign in St. Louis, Mo., instead.

States and municipalities may be inadvertently putting in roadblocks and costing taxpayers more when they approve policies that prolong the foreclosure process, such as by extending mediation services, Alfred Pollard, general counsel for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, testified at a House panel on Monday.

In PLR 200807005, the IRS explicitly approved an arrangement where the taxpayer proposed to acquire replacement property in a like - kind exchange by acquiring 100 % of the interest in a limited partnership that owned the replacement property.